Replaced by His First Love
He looked like the Alpha Prime of a decade ago, but his edges were fraying, silver code leaking from his shoulders like smoke.
Vane rose across the void, a towering silhouette of red, crystalline code in heavy tactical gear.
He gripped a Memory-Blade, a jagged spike of processing power humming with the screams of every wolf the Council had ever formatted.
"The Admin is a sentimental relic," Vane's voice ground out like glass on a frozen lake.
"You're guarding a woman who's already scrubbed your name from her mind. Why die for a ghost, Kael Blackwood?"
Vane swung. The impact forced a memory into the foreground.